I swear, beautiful dogs have mind control powers. Their cuteness and majesty cannot be denied. I have to live with these handsome beasts:

It was an iron meteorite blade. They found a meteorite that was made of iron, and they cold-hammered it into a blade. They had no smithies that could work iron at the time.

Why? You think things can’t be cute and heavy metal at the same time?

Jokes aside, I wonder if there’s a real sociological observation going on in here. America has looked like it’s on the precipice of revolution for a decade or more because of severe inequality. But that’s mostly affected minority populations. I wonder if there’s a sociological tenet that revolutions don’t actually…

I think the problem is that we are shipping 100,000 people into the hot zone, letting them baste for a few weeks, then shipping them back across the entire globe.

Are you sure you aren’t mishearing them say ‘Thorax Whore’?

1000 pounds of thrust would send him into a parabolic arc pretty quickly. I’m more inclined to believe it’s 1000 horsepower.

Flying headfirst with a wingsuit would drastically cut down on power consumption, and so you could get away with carrying a heavier load of fuel

Does this mean we can still stream Monster Girl Quest, i.e. the Best Game of the Year, Every Year?

Don’t need to know more. It’s made by Supergiant Games so its an instabuy.

I’m serious, here. My favorite carry-on bag is a FAB NY Lightweight 15-inch one-compartment carry-on. Pictured is the MLP variant, which costs about $50, but mine was plain and cost me only $10 (!!!). I took acrylic paints and painted pictures of my dogs on the outside. It’s personalized, cheap, and it’s lasted…

I’m serious, here. My favorite carry-on bag is a FAB NY Lightweight 15-inch one-compartment carry-on. Pictured is…

I need some advice on how you define the word ‘can’.

I forget who said it, but the saying goes, “You don’t pay a woman for sex. You pay the woman to go away afterwards.”

Maybe empathy — like all human talents — is a tool? It can be used badly, to distract ourselves from important details. Or it can be used correctly, to sympathize with victims and keep ourselves from being ravaging narcissistic monsters. Not that Paul Bloom would understand the latter usage.

No, that won’t happen. Io9 brings the savage snark when a movie deserves to be eviscerated. I’m looking forward to this one. (The review, that is. I’m dreading the movie, and I know I’m going to see it this weekend because my girlfriend already asked me to take her.)

I love it when people tell me that they don’t believe evil really exists, and in response I’m able to point to just about anything Richard Nixon did...

A person can be racist with a single sentence, sometimes with a single word. That’s not structural or systematic. It’s racist because of a history of similar systematic biases. Someone can state a bias that doesn’t have that history and get away with it — such as saying that they’re going to push white actors off a…

Thanks. I didn’t detect any patronizing there. I did not know that ‘reverse racism’ had become emotionally loaded — I thought it was a fine description for a social phenomenon.

Oh, I also have my doubts that enforced bias is the best answer. But right now it’s the most socially acceptable answer. To get along with society, I’m willing to accept it. (Until the next anti-injustice fad sweeps in, of course. I’m hoping it involves masks and spandex tights.)

But it’s not fair to say, “We need a black actor on this ballot, so we have to push this qualified white actor off the list.”